Version 1.1 – WITH MORE BASSISTS! – I've always wanted to write a post like this. I have been a student of the Bass Guitar for around 15 years and have always fought the "apparent unimportance" of bass players in contemporary music. Through this post I hope to once and for all assert the position of bassists everywhere in the highest echelons of cool.
This article appears in Dec 9-15, 2009.
